And to those that have been here for a while, how has your experience changed over the year(s)?
What has worked for you?
What do you see needs improvement in your chosen platform?
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Thats a long time. 2017 was 9 years ago. What changes have you noticed since then?
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Lemmy really needs to get its shit together in the UI/UX dept for the default look of an instance. Mastodon does this much better.
I can’t stand looking at Lemmy without Voyager.
I can’t stand looking at Lemmy without Voyager.
Yeah, I use eternity and I’m grateful for the theme settings.
Also for godsake why isn’t swipe left for the next post a standard thing on these applications.
I tried all of the apps on the google playstore before reaching the last in the list, eternity which had a setting for swiping left for the next post.
That said the lack of advertisements is refreshing as is the horrifically bad “AI” moderating system that is so prevalent on reddit.
Lemmy’s UI options are fine for me but I do principally use Voyager.
That said were you a Reddit user before Lemmy? Did you use old Reddit or one of the other options?
About 3 years in, and same as it has been: Discovery’s kinda ass if you’re not on the big servers. This is both a positive and a negative. In most cases it leads to a lack of content directly, and for services like Lemmy, it leads to communities being more dispersed.
I think giving servers the option to run on a whitelist basis instead of a blacklist for other servers would be good. Federation is cool for a lot of reasons, but if your goal is to be a dick you can do that on a $5/mo server with a few cheap domains. Plus I’ve wanted to self-host some things that I don’t necessarily want federated, like Bookwyrm. I was looking at setting one up as a fanfic sharing thing, and a lot of fanfic authors don’t want their stuff on platforms like Goodreads for valid reasons, and I personally feel like having it federated would kinda defeat the purpose there. While I was typing this out I just had an idea that might have fixed that problem, actually, I’ll test that later
In the same vain, allowing servers to share their blocklists with other servers would help a lot as well. Yes you can see the block list publicly (though some servers do disable it), but manually copying it is a massive chore, and keeping it updated is even worse.
Thats a heck of a domain lol.
I’m not new as such. I joined up on kbin initially and tried to establish my communities on there, but kbin kinda collapsed. Then I gave up for a while.
When I came back, I moved to lemm.ee and set up television and obscuremusic and got them going (the former especially) and then unfortunately lemm.ee shut down and then I moved to Piefed and rebuilt it all over again.
Thank you for sticking with it!
Thank you for helping build this place!
That we still can’t use a single account to comment and post outside of our home instance is the most frustrating part of the fediverse and the main contradiction to “you just need one sign up”.
Hello from wherever the fuck I am.
You can definitely do that lol
I am posting outside of my instance right now by replying to you
how has your experience been?
Posts and comments cannot be easily deleted, for one.
Otherwise, the general experience is like being at an anarchists’ beer hall.
Good! I’m a long time lurker, new user.
If you dedicate a day to figuring out how lemmy works then imo it’s quite straightforward. I appreciate the expansion of free speech (i got banned from reddit for telling an AFD member to kill himself) and generally most people here seem ok. it’s still rather niche but oh well. We can fix that by inviting friends! It’s also much more authentic. A lot fewer covert advertisements and more actual people.
It’s the same as reddit. platforms don’t make a different. people make a difference
It’s all the same people, with the same arrogance and same entitlement and egotism, who take themselves way too seriously and think that justifies their to harass, insult, and report/ban anyone who says stuff they don’t like. to the point they will go into other communities to take your commentary out of context to prove how ‘evil’ you are over a different of opinion or perspective, even if it’s a more complex or nuanced take on what they already agree with.
It’s just got a lot of extremist weirdos who think their extremists beliefs are some deep profound truth that they must use to browbeat other into submission. A lot of them with superiority complexes that cannot tolerate any admission of limitation or flaw in the glass house from which they throw stones all day.
And the userbase and voting systems generally rewards short, shrill, outlandish, and hyperbolic headlines, commentary, and personalities more than it does thoughtful commentary. Thoughtful commentary with nuance and acknowledging the limits of your understanding… will get you harassed and banned.
It’s not an open forum for diverse discussion among a respectful group of people that it wishes it was. It’s just tiktok with text.
It’s not an open forum for diverse discussion among a respectful group of people that it wishes it was. It’s just tiktok with text.
I felt similarly, until I found the “block” feature. Then I discovered that most of what I consider bullshit is brought by a few bad eggs who I have long since blocked. Now I watch people argue uselessly with them, without having to read the stupid/vitrol that spawned the responses.
I’m glad that works for you. TBF i have been using fediverse for over 2.5 years now, and it was not so bad until about half a year ago, when all the sudden like every other comment I make here gets me insulted and harassed by trolls who accuse me of trolling and being a conspiracy theorist for citing well-known information from reputable sources, while meanwhile counter posted their conspiracy left-wing crap as ‘truth’. The election of Trump and the murder of Kirk seemed to coincide with a big influx of bad faith actors here who were probably banned from reddit for their pro-violence viewpoints. They also tend to be very stupid people IMO, and constantly harass and accuse others of the things they are doing rather and seem to think their hostility towards others is good and correct but anyone’s hostility is wrong and bad.
Not to mention all the weird sentimentalists who just berate and report you if you don’t take highly simplified stances on issues that equate to kindergarten level communication. Even suggestion that a social or political issue is complex and nuanced is grounds for getting you banned in a lot of communities now. That wasn’t the case a year or two ago.
I’ve also repeated been lectured that piefed is some miraculous place that is ‘different’ but I’ve been on it for several months and it seems no different other than a lot of the users on piefed instances huffing their own farts on how superior they are for being on piefed. Which is precisely the type of immature nonsense that crappy people believe, that their arbitrary choices of social media platforms make them morally superior to anyone who isn’t also using those same platforms.
Way, WAY too many suggestive/sexualized anime image communities to have to block. We all have our fetishes so I’m not begrudging them (although some of them are… unsettling even to my sick mind), but the number of communities in my blocklist made up of such content is simply insane. I wish there were categories standardized across instances/platforms that each community needed to associate itself with so I could block everything matching that in one fell swoop. I’ll also never be interested in professional sports-related communities, for example.
Serious question, have you considered defaulting to subscribed rather than /all/?
I prefer using all because I’m routinely coming across new communities I’m interested in, never mind I don’t want to live in a bubble.
I’m guessing this is a piefed problem (I’m not a user there) but Lemmy.world has been great for me. My suggestion is using lemmy.world and dabbling in piefed. Piefed will need a bit of time I’m assuming.
Actually, this is an alt account I only use occasionally. Main account is on lemmings.world, which is where I experience this.
fwiw on lemmy in Settings I turn off “Show NSFW Content” and “Show Bot Accounts” and that improves things dramatically.
It gets better the more familiar you become with it. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.
I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.
Ugh, this. And I hate that it’s like that.
Like, I used to have my instance open to whoever to sign up. My guiding principle was to have a place that wasn’t overrun with [parts that are just way too jarring]. Holy shit was that an impossible goal to do alone so I shuttered it up and now it’s just a private instance / testbed for Tesseract.
My friends knew I was active on Reddit, and that was fine. But I wouldn’t tell them I spend any amount of time here because what they would see going to almost any random instance will
probablydefinitely not look good on me by association despite that I’m nowhere near that.So if anyone shares this desire, I am open to un-mothballing my instance, rebranding, and taking on new admins and re-opening to users.
Ok so wtf is everyone talking about jarring parts
furries. linux supremacists. extremist left-wingers of various flavors and identity groups. fetishists of every variety and their weird SFW quasi pornography.
not sure how you aren’t seeing any of that. i see it on a daily basis and to not see it i have to block dozens of communities. at one point on lemmy i had something like 60 communities blocked and 100s of users.
I mean I see it but it’s the internet… do people really not expect them to be posting?
nothing wrong with them posting and doing their thing, but in fediverse that stuff hits general feeds and going to be incredibly alienating to a non-fetishist userbase. if the fediverse wants to grow it needs to keep controversial content away from the front page.
personally i know furries and I don’t really care, but I’m a weirdo. Yet I still don’t really want weird furry shit that I don’t care about constantly showing up in my feed.
Average people are FREAKED OUT by furries, even pro-queer progressives: https://slate.com/advice/2026/02/parent-advice-son-hobby-community-furry.html
Oh well yeah I mean furry content isn’t the same as furry porn. I immediately blocked the nsfw instances from my feed. Idk why that isn’t done by default
No idea. Maybe they’re still federated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear for some odd reason?
My confusion is in no way lessened
They’re particularly toxic tankie servers on Lemmy
Ok I guess the only thing I have left to google is tankie lol
lemmy.ml is still rife with crazy tankies who go into other instances and harass the crap out of people.
Maybe all the ”what the fuck we just made another-moe" communities?
I swear I used to block three every week, until I figured out it was just a few users who didn’t know how to use content warning tags, and then I just blocked those users.
100% same here. used to be every few weeks, now it’s every other day. and it does help to block certain accounts, but it’s still way more prolific and hard to filter out than it was 6 months ago
I find it hard to believe you have any friends, pat
Lmfao he definitely does okay, some that are cool enough to know he’s active on reddit and nobody who’s cool enough to know about the lemmy
i mean, how many of your IRL friends are furries who use Linux on their home PCs?
I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone irl either, mostly because the community is so small that they’d inevitably find one of my posts haha
I’m new here and it’s quite a relaxed experience. I think there are more friendly and reflected people. It’s like people here are able to criticise properly and take criticism and also encourage and praise a little. I thought this was lost since early internet. But also very political / activist. I feel like in a bubble of people who want to change things for the sake of people and not capital. As much as I like it we’re not enough. I don’t care there are not many comments. Less comments, less fomo.
Welcome!
I think there are some people here like that, and they are great.
But there are fewer and fewer of them as they get drowned out by the angry miserable people who are only here to harass and grief others who they disagree with. Huge uptick in that type of behavior the past few months, as the politics in the USA has gotten a lot of reddit people banned there and they came here. I have been called more names in the past three months on lemmy that I ever got in the previous 2-3 years I have been using fediverse
So this account is not my first rodeo. I’ve been off and on the fediverse.
I think it’s been an interesting experience. I believe there’s still more to go and be done 3 years in. I think there should be more tools available to deal with assholes than hoping and praying moderators deal with it, considering how moderators operate more on a “when I have the time to” than “I need to do this for the sake of the community I’m upholding the values of”.
Mastodon didn’t stick for me, it was too decentralized for my tastes. I haven’t tried anything else because if I didn’t like X/Instagram for example, I’m not going to like their Fediverse versions either because they’re not my platforms of choice.
I joined today! I tried to post some images, but could only have one image per post. Then someone was rude, and I wasn’t able to downvote him. I keep refreshing the front page, but nothing happens since there’s no algorithm, the latest posts just stay there.
I think I’ll stick around here in parallel to Reddit. Maybe some day I’ll understand how instances and all of that works.
Sorry you ran into those issues and the rude person.
I think new accounts have some restrictions for the first 3(?) days. My understanding is that this was implemented to try to counter an annoying person who keeps making accounts doing shitty things and then deleting that account and making a new one.
I’m pretty sure there’s a way to add multiple images to a post, but I’ve never done it.
For the new content, you may want to try switching your view to “New” or if it’s your first time looking at piefed during the day “Top (x)” [x being how long since you last opened at Piefed]. Those methods usually bring me a bunch of new content.
Hope your experience gets better :)
Edit: It didn’t occur to me earlier, but are you on “Subscribed” feed or “All” feed? If you aren’t on all, I would suggest switching to that until you have enough subscribed communities.
It takes little time until you have subscribed too enough communities so that your home feed feels natural. I use the “Hot” sorting in home, but there are some people who prefer “Scaled”, which is hot but favors smaller communities, so that you don’t only have memes and shit posts in there.
For the All feed I Dan really recommend “Top of 6 hours”. But, yeah, the Threadiverse is not big enough to spend here hours a day, I usually come here twice a day. What I really like is that you have much more user engagement, where on Reddit your comment usually disappears in the void. Welcome and have fun here, hope you’ll stay a little longer ;)
I don’t understand the politics. .ml, hexbear, etc. It’s like going to Christmas dinner with your girlfriend’s family for the first time.
I don’t understand the broader structure, something about Mastodon being part of all this? How everything interconnects, etc.
I’m happy enough here, I read, I make comments, I move on. Just like I did on Reddit. It’s a bit empty, so many of the communities are ghost towns. I get that I’m supposed to help with that, but I’m not much of a poster.
Learning recently that apparently anyone can track my upvote/downvote stats was offputting. I’m going to stop upvoting and downvoting now, I don’t want people making inferences from that, but I’m fine with what I write, because there I always say what I mean.
Been here about 2 weeks, I find it pretty boring and lame. It’s mostly anime titties, memes, non-stop politics and group-think people fighting about “people from X instance are so Y”, none of which I find very interesting. I kinda wish there were categories or tags or something which held all communities that I could block, perhaps controversial but “cats” for example. I like the nerdy parts though. My blocklist is already bigger than my 13 year old reddit account but to be fair I learned to subscribe to subreddits pretty early on. That’s not really possible here unless I want to look at 4 month old posts with 3 comments. But hey, at least it’s not a corpo hellscape!
